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UnitedHealth and DOJ trial begins: handling sensitive data
UnitedHealth Group Inc. will gain access to “vast amounts of data” on how rival insurers do business if its proposed acquisition of...

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FTC Caught in Balancing Act With Pharmacy Benefit Manager Probe
PBM group says independent pharmacies are ‘stable’ ‘Need to understand’ what’s happening with drug supply chain, consumer costs Bloomberg...

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It’s time to expose the secret drug scam at the heart of American health care
Yahoo Finance/Fortune A federal court recently exposed the rot at the heart of America's healthcare system. The case, filed in the U.S....

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FTC Goes After PBMs, Warns Of Legal Action
Forbes Last month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted unanimously (5-0) to examine rising list prices of insulin, but also to probe...

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Lawmakers ask GAO to probe pharmacy benefit managers over their role in drug pricing
STAT News Amid intensifying scrutiny of pharmacy benefit managers, a group of House Republicans is urging the U.S. Government...

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FTC Probe Into Rx Middlemen May Spark Industry Shakeup
Law360 Concerns that pharmaceutical middlemen inflate drug prices and harm patients have led the Federal Trade Commission to launch a...

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Senate Commerce Committee Issues Testimony From David A. Balto Law Offices Antitrust Attorney
The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee issued the following testimony by David A. Balto, antitrust attorney at David...

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Prospect of lower fees for prescription drugs could be dashed by new maneuver from PBMs
The Columbus Dispatch A few months ago, proposed federal action to reduce fees on prescription drugs used by millions of older Americans...

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Provider status is very necessary for pharmacists (and I will argue with AMA later on this)
James Lott, CEO of Script Health in Chicago, strongly favors the Pharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act, the bill that...

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Vertically integrated payer-provider groups raise antitrust concerns
Modern Healthcare More commercial insurers are overhauling their business models in response to changes ushered in by the Affordable Care...

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While UnitedHealth Reports $24B in Profits, Americans Faced 200% Increases in Out-of-Pocket Costs
No insurer has ever made that kind of money in U.S. history. Wendell Potter NOW Just days after a Commonwealth Fund report showed that...

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